Sentences with phrase «international test scores»

It is possible to do credible social scientific analyses of international test scores if you do something like a regression that systematically examines variation in performance within and across countries controlling for other variables.

This is significant because its students score remarkably well on international test scores.

While policy elites fret about international test scores, college - and career - ready standards, and STEM, parents worry about bullying, what's on the lunch menu, the bus schedule, and the dress code.

But back to mindless Finland, with its «very basic education» that somehow leads to high international test scores even as it completely dodges those pesky standardized tests with which also - Prussian - linked America is plagued.

International test scores put our math and reading proficiency around thirtieth in the world, which points to low future growth.

Some point to Sweden, and its plummeting international test scores, as a warning of what more school choice in the U.S. could bring without an accompanying rise in accountability.

As the China - born, China - educated scholar Yong Zhao, now at the University of Oregon, has pointed out, there is no logical connection between international test scores and the success of our economy.

This leave US international test scores averaging in the middle of the pack.»

There has been criticism of the stagnant performance of Swedish students on international test scores relative to their OECD peers.

So the answer to high international test scores is really quite simple, just make sure no US school has more that 10 % of the kids living in poverty.

It wouldn't be until 1993 that a brief glimpse at the Sandia National Laboratories report on education put the interpretation of international test scores, and standardized test scores in general, in perspective.

The gist of the piece is that Sweden's private schools, and the parental choice program that pays for them, «have thrown Swedish education off course,» causing its international test scores to fall.

For analysts of education policy, this is a matter of great concern, because many defenders of the American school system argue that our international test scores look bad only because our large number of poor children are «dragging down» our scores.

While Massachusetts is widely acknowledged to have the best - performing students in the nation, at least as measured by national and international test scores, there are increasing signs that educational progress in the state has stalled.

Moreover, former U.S. Department of Education analyst Keith Baker compared 40 years» worth of nations» per capita gross domestic product and international test scores and found that test scores actually dropped as the rate of economic growth improved.

The United States has remained competitive while our international tests scores have always been middling.

80 percent of principals view the Common Core Standards as providing a framework for deeper learning; 67 percent believe the standards will raise U.S. students» international test scores.

(See: What You Need to Know About the International Test Scores).

Baker compared forty years» worth of nations» per capita gross domestic product and international test scores and found that test scores actually dropped as the rate of economic growth improved.